Posts by: Jaime Rugh

We’ve posted this before, just wanted to share it again! When it comes to making art with kids I stick to two schools: the “no right or wrong way” kind and the “let’s keep it simple and inexpensive.” Especially when I’m feeling bold enough to set out a crafts project during a kids party, I […]

Charlie celebrated her birthday this weekend with friends, and a month early. She wanted to have a surprise party this year and as the next several weeks were quite full for us and our friends, we decided to surprise her in July, instead of August. Two birthdays seem right up her alley anyways, and I love her so much I’d give […]

A quick little project we did using “magnet sheets” with adhesive backing. I picked them up at our CVS a few weeks back. The kids picked out their favorite fabrics from my scrap bin and then we did our best to flatten/smooth them onto the magnets’ sticky side. We trimmed the excess fabric from the […]

For the most part, traveling parents aren’t fun for young children. In our home, it’s gone from the children being too young to understand why dad’s gone a few days here and there, to knowing where he is, but dealing with the heavy hearted feelings of longing for his return. My husband’s job goes in […]

I have envisioned my children engaged in good old fashioned correspondence by post for sometime now. Snail mail as they call it. Growing up I had a pen pal, granted a West Coast wild child pen pal, who’s adventures always left me feeling like my East Coast suburban days we’re modest,boring even. But for several […]